Henry Ian Cusick

Looks like the adults are starting to do some shipping of their own on The 100.

While the “kids” (who are no longer kids, according to Abby) are off fighting a seemingly unwinnable war, Abby and Kane are left to whisper about the costs of their actions — and their potential feelings.

It wasn’t POTUS or Jake who finally saved Olivia Pope, but a former Gladiator.

During Thursday’s episode of Scandal, original OPA member Stephen Finch (Henry Ian Cusick) was revealed to be working with the Russian outfit that bid $2 billion for Olivia (Kerry Washington), which would effectively give them control of the President of the United States (Tony Goldwyn). In truth, Abby (Darby Stanchfield) had called in a favor from Stephen in order to prevent Olivia’s certain death—the White House planned to bomb the exchange lest the nation’s biggest secrets fall into the wrong hands.

“We had been thinking about the idea of him coming back actually for a long time,” executive producer Shonda Rhimes tells EW. “As far as I know, he immediately said yes. It was an immediate, ‘Absolutely,’ and then he and I were on the phone together, which was nice.”

• Brad Pitt (12 Years a Slave) is in early talks to star in an untitled World War II romantic thriller from Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight. No director or distributor is attached yet. Graham King’s GK Films will produce. [Deadline]